You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 221.

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In this episode, I'd like to expand on some of the ideas I explored at the end of the previous episode, part two of my interview with Jameson Price.

If you haven't listened to it already, I would suggest you check out both parts of his interview, as well as episode 204 of the podcast entitled, Go Hunting for the Best Acting and Storytelling.

While those episodes are not required for you to appreciate this one, they can offer you important context for the concepts I'm going

to address here. One of the big pieces of advice that Jameson gives to his acting students

is to go out and live life. In the previous episode, I defined living life as

maximizing the interactions you have with other human beings by participating in their emotional

lives, as well as engaging with their ideological beliefs. These life experiences are what an artist draws upon in order to

bring authenticity and believability to their artistic creations. Having diverse and enriching life

experiences can help broaden your expressive capabilities as a creative in any field. In the past, living life usually meant getting out of your

house and interacting with people and with the world around you. The further away from home you got,

the more likely it would be for you to have new and unique experiences that you hadn't encountered

before. It was as if reality was a random experience

generator that increased a novelty the more you explored it, like opening up new areas on a map

in a video game. While this can still be the case, a new factor has been added to modern life,

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